Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russia's population could shrink by half by the end of the century, an Atlantic Council report says. The Russia-Ukraine war has ...

Economists, tech elites and politicians have expressed concern regarding the sharp decline in birth rates in many countries. Falling fertility rates in advanced economies and emerging markets (such as ...

A weather person who told us to bundle up for the cold weather, but also be sure to drink plenty of fluids to protect against the heat, would not be taken very seriously. That is roughly the state of ...

Across the world, governments adopted population-trimming policies, from massively subsidized birth control to promoting two-worker households to China's draconian "one child" policy. Getty Images See ...

There is a growing consensus that environmental problems, particularly the effects of climate change, pose a grave challenge to humanity. Pollution, habitat destruction, intractable waste issues and, ...

Russia's economy has a dire demographic problem on its hands, and the nation could see its population slashed in half by the end of the century, an Atlantic Council report says. The report from the ...